Had a nice little accident this evening. This weekend I picked up a few stereo albums at Goodwill. Since it's easy to get burned and come home with records that have so much surface noise that you can hardly stand listening to them, I even took all the vinyl out and held it in the sunlight coming through the front window to inspect the vinyl. Put a few back because they looked nasty and brought the rest home. After cleaning the vinyl over the weekend I decided to play one tonight. It was Gordon Lightfoot Summertime Dream. I put on the record and set my Lafayette SQ-W to the Composer B position. As the record started I thought, "this doesn't sound like Gordon Lightfoot, but it does sound familiar." As the record played a few more seconds I realized, oops, someone put a different album in this record jacket and even after inspecting it in the store, taking it out to clean it when I got home and putting it on the turntable to play it, I never noticed it was the wrong album! Turns out, it was Supertramp - Crime of the Century. Man, does this album sound good when processed through the Lafayette. It's easily more impressive than many of the so called surround sound mixes coming out these days. I can only imagine what this recording could sound like if mixed in surround in the hands of someone like Steve Wilson. I'm not even a huge Supertramp fan, but this record just sounds really great. I hope someday it may become and actual surround recording.
